The way I understood it is like this. 45% of songs sold were sold as part of an album. For example, out of 100 songs sold, 55 songs were sold as singles and 5 albums were sold, each with 9 songs in it.
Oh, he also double-clicks hyperlinks. Anyone else seen that anoyning trait?
I had a college professor who would try to double-click the [+] next to folders in the left pane of Windows Explorer. After a few unsuccessfull attempts to get the folder to expand, he would resort to quadruple-clicking the [+]. Usually after 2 or 3 vigorous quadruple-clicks the mouse would move enough that two consecutive clicks would land on the folder, expanding it.
and at any bestbuy I've ever been to across the states, the clerks never pushed an MSN disk inside the bag and charged me for it.
Yes but did any ever secretly charge you for it without putting the disk inside the bag? That's what happened to me. I did get MSN to refund the money though, but it still pissed me off.
But anyway, as an example of a googlewhack: placating counterbombardment is currently a googlewhack. As soon as this page gets indexed by google, it will cease to be so.
A google search of two terms that only results in one hit. Unfortunately observing and documenting a googlewhack on the web usually results in it losing it's googlewhack status.
And adding more spectrum in the 2.4Ghz range might solve a lot more range/bandwidth problems than just those of military radar.
True, but that's not part of the agreement.
The bill proposes opening up an additional 255MHz of contiguous spectrum in the 5GHz band. A 300MHz slice of the 5GHz band is being used for wireless networking, while only 83MHz of spectrum is being used in the 2.4GHz band.
Even if the Bill is passed, 802.11a and 802.11g (which are in the 2.4GHz band) will still only have 3 usable channels. 802.11a (which in in the 5 GHz band) will almost double in number of channels.
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I realize that this thread is almost dead, being 7 days later than your post, but I would be interested to hear about the striking differences you noticed. Santa brought me an FPD for Christmas but I was initially forced to hook it up using the the analog VGA to DVI cable included, as no store in my area carried a DVI cable. A few days ago, the DVI cable I ordered on-line arrived and I hooked it up. I didn't notice any difference from what I had seen before.
Ok, so I followed the link to G. Cooke's reviews and then out of sheer curiosity followed the link to Professional Clog - Polyurethane -- Blue and down at the bottom of the page found this:
Customers who wear clothes also shop for:
Rather than the ones who go naked, right? But it gets better. Look what they shop for:
Oh, wow! I never knew that when you set your card to connect to any SSID it magically fills in the SSID field of the association request frame with the correct SSID of the AP it is requesting association with!
In order for a client to associate with an AP it must know the SSID the ap is using. It must fill in the SSID field in the associate request frame if it hopes to be granted association. Some (most?... all?) APs that suppress the SSID in the beacon also suppress it in the probe response as well. That means that the only time the SSID is transmitted out over the air is during the association process. The only way an attacker (no matter how clever, devious or diabolical they are) can associate with your AP is if they were sniffing at the time some valid client associated, grabbed the SSID out of the frame and used it in their own association request. No it's not perfect security, it's not even that great of a security mechanism, but it's an extra hurdle that people have to get over in attacking your network.
Setting the card to connect to any SSID simply lets the card fill in the association request frame SSID field with an SSID it has seen out on the air, either through beacons or probe responses. If the AP suppresses the SSID in both beacons and probe responses, the card has no way of knowing the SSID.
If you are worried about warchalkers (or wardrivers, or whatever) connecting up to your AP, suppressing the SSID in beacons and probe responses will probably be enough to keep them walking.
If you are worried about competitors gaining access to your network through the wireless APs, suppressing the SSID will not be enough.
Actually most APs broadcast a few (or many) Beacon Frames every second rather than a Beacon every few seconds. But to your question, the client (whether authorized or un-authorized) needs the SSID to associate with an AP. Picking one that is difficult to guess and using a AP that can suppress the SSID in Beacon Frames makes it that much more difficult for an un-authorized client to associate with your AP.
Oh, there'll be a check box alright, and it'll say "Enable User Monitoring" or something like that, but all unchecking it will really do is set a flag in the weekly upload to MS that says "User is paranoid and probably doing something illegal. Notify the BSA, the FBI and local law enforcement for additional monitoring."
What? You didn't think MS got out of it's trouble with the government over the "monopoly abuse" issue that easily, did you?
Obviously phones aren't going to be moved to wireless if your in a call center.
They could be. Spectralink in one of a few companies that sell 802.11 phones. Unlike 2.4Ghz cordless phones, these wouldn't interfere with your wireless network because they _use_ it. Look here: http://www.spectralink.com/products/netlink.html
My guess is about 50% increase. Sounds crappy, I know, but 802.11b has a bit of overhead. The beacons and all management packets are usually broadcast at 2Mbps, and the headers of all packets usually go out at 2Mbps as well -- so that slower 2Mbps-only radios realize a packet is being transmitted so collisions can be avoided. This allows for backward compatibility with the original 802.11. The faster the advertised rate (22Mbs vs 11Mbs) the more the actual throughput is affected by the collision avoidance overhead.
You can say goodbye to these schemes now, as they have no chance of suceeding.
You say that like its news to the record labels. Six months after debut, when the total subscriptions is barly pushing three digits, they'll shut the service down and say "See no one wants to pay for their music downloads. The only reason Napster and the like were popular is that they were free. Those evil, hacking, napster-loving, commerce-hating, artist-robbing, economy-destroying, pirates must be stopped" These horrible music subscription scemes were never intended to succeed, only to be a token foray into the world of music downloads. Listening to music on a computer is only about robbing people, or so we'll be told.
About two years ago my in-laws bought a Gateway PC. They loaded it up to the hilt, 933 Mhz PIII, 256MB RAM, 50GB HD, CD/DVD ROM, CD/RW, internal zip250, a half a dozen software bundles (seriously), etc.
It came with an external zip100 (paralell port) drive and no written explanation for the switch. When they called up to find out why, they were told there was no room for the drive in the case. When I found out I was pissed because I knew there was both physical room (it was a mid tower) and there were only three IDE devices. I told my in-laws this and they called back to insist there was room and to inquire why an external zip250 hadn't been shipped anyway. Tech support insisted that there wasn't room and that no one made external zip250 drives. Six months earlier I had held in my hands a USB zip250 drive that was purchased at a store. They called back again and this time let me speak to tech support. It turns out that the motherboard that had been sold with their system "didn't work well" with four IDE devices in use! They also agreed to ship out an external USB zip250 which were apparently in production now whereas two days ago they weren't.
Think of the trolls!! How will those poor wretched creatures who value their self-worth on the number of first-posts achieved ever survive if they have to shell out money in order to even have a chance at a first-post?
Then again, that may not be a bad idea. Now that I think about it, I think that's a great idea, even for the people who don't subscribe. The first n posts would all come from people who care enough to subscribe and who probably don't want to waste ad-free page views on content-free posts. This would likely result in a higher signal-to-noise ratio in the first comments. Sometime that's all I get to read anyway, so 30-minute-delayed stories in exchange for better comments is a trade-off I'd be willing to make
Why would I need dozens of network drops in every room of my house?
The point is that with one AP in your house (two or more if you have a really big house or wish to hide them in obscure places) you can have dozens of clients accessing the network from every room in the house. You also don't need to unplug and plug-back-in when you move your laptop from one room to another. How close are your two houses? Do you have a cable strung between the two? Some vendors APs allow you to configure two as a wireless bridge, connecting two wired networks. Wouldn't that be kind of neat?
Most wireless services today target consumer applications - cellphones and PDAs. A wireless LAN is very useful...
Wireless LANs are what all the articles linked to in the write-up talked about, at least as far as I can see. Lots of colleges and universites have wireless LANs. Think about what you did on the network when you were in college. Wouldn't it have been cool to do that from almost anywhere on campus? Companies are using wireless LANs too. Probably more than you realize.
If I were outside trying to enjoy a summer afternoon (which is pretty rare for me), I'd be reading a book.;-)
touché
But, what if you had email to respond to or net research do, and it was a nice sunny summer afternoon. Wouldn't you rather do these things lounging in the grass under the warm summer sun than sitting in a cubicle?
Do you have dozens network drops in every room of your house or aparment? Does every conference room in your office building have a network connection for everyone in a max capacity environment? Have you ever surfed the web or checked your email while sitting on the front lawn, enjoying a summer afternoon? Wireless LANs themselves are the killer app.
I'm not sure what bandwidth you (or the article you linked to) are talking about, but I'm certain it is not the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band that 802.11b uses. If it was, no one would be able to use 2.4 GHz cordless phones or microwave ovens in the affected cities. Keep in mind "wireless network" != "802.11b"
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The way I understood it is like this. 45% of songs sold were sold as part of an album. For example, out of 100 songs sold, 55 songs were sold as singles and 5 albums were sold, each with 9 songs in it.
Oh, he also double-clicks hyperlinks. Anyone else seen that anoyning trait?
I had a college professor who would try to double-click the [+] next to folders in the left pane of Windows Explorer. After a few unsuccessfull attempts to get the folder to expand, he would resort to quadruple-clicking the [+]. Usually after 2 or 3 vigorous quadruple-clicks the mouse would move enough that two consecutive clicks would land on the folder, expanding it.
Ahh... the memories of college.
and at any bestbuy I've ever been to across the states, the clerks never pushed an MSN disk inside the bag and charged me for it.
Yes but did any ever secretly charge you for it without putting the disk inside the bag? That's what happened to me. I did get MSN to refund the money though, but it still pissed me off.
SpectraLink has been doing 802.11 handheld phones for a few years as well with their NetLink product line.
From what I remember, yes it does. What you are looking for is the phrase Results 1 - 1 of 1. Ads can be ignored.
Replying to my own post, I know, I know...
But anyway, as an example of a googlewhack:
placating counterbombardment is currently a googlewhack. As soon as this page gets indexed by google, it will cease to be so.
A google search of two terms that only results in one hit. Unfortunately observing and documenting a googlewhack on the web usually results in it losing it's googlewhack status.
And adding more spectrum in the 2.4Ghz range might solve a lot more range/bandwidth problems than just those of military radar.
True, but that's not part of the agreement.
The bill proposes opening up an additional 255MHz of contiguous spectrum in the 5GHz band. A 300MHz slice of the 5GHz band is being used for wireless networking, while only 83MHz of spectrum is being used in the 2.4GHz band.
Even if the Bill is passed, 802.11a and 802.11g (which are in the 2.4GHz band) will still only have 3 usable channels. 802.11a (which in in the 5 GHz band) will almost double in number of channels.
I realize that this thread is almost dead, being 7 days later than your post, but I would be interested to hear about the striking differences you noticed. Santa brought me an FPD for Christmas but I was initially forced to hook it up using the the analog VGA to DVI cable included, as no store in my area carried a DVI cable. A few days ago, the DVI cable I ordered on-line arrived and I hooked it up. I didn't notice any difference from what I had seen before.
Ok, so I followed the link to G. Cooke's reviews and then out of sheer curiosity followed the link to Professional Clog - Polyurethane -- Blue and down at the bottom of the page found this:
Customers who wear clothes also shop for:
Rather than the ones who go naked, right? But it gets better. Look what they shop for:
Clean Underwear from Amazon's Target Store
the default aiport driver worked with the Orinoco cards, as I recall
That's probably because the airport card _is_ an orinoco card.
Can we say Terminal Man? At least your prof didn't go on a killing spree...
Oh, wow! I never knew that when you set your card to connect to any SSID it magically fills in the SSID field of the association request frame with the correct SSID of the AP it is requesting association with!
... all?) APs that suppress the SSID in the beacon also suppress it in the probe response as well. That means that the only time the SSID is transmitted out over the air is during the association process. The only way an attacker (no matter how clever, devious or diabolical they are) can associate with your AP is if they were sniffing at the time some valid client associated, grabbed the SSID out of the frame and used it in their own association request. No it's not perfect security, it's not even that great of a security mechanism, but it's an extra hurdle that people have to get over in attacking your network.
In order for a client to associate with an AP it must know the SSID the ap is using. It must fill in the SSID field in the associate request frame if it hopes to be granted association. Some (most?
Setting the card to connect to any SSID simply lets the card fill in the association request frame SSID field with an SSID it has seen out on the air, either through beacons or probe responses. If the AP suppresses the SSID in both beacons and probe responses, the card has no way of knowing the SSID.
If you are worried about warchalkers (or wardrivers, or whatever) connecting up to your AP, suppressing the SSID in beacons and probe responses will probably be enough to keep them walking.
If you are worried about competitors gaining access to your network through the wireless APs, suppressing the SSID will not be enough.
Actually most APs broadcast a few (or many) Beacon Frames every second rather than a Beacon every few seconds. But to your question, the client (whether authorized or un-authorized) needs the SSID to associate with an AP. Picking one that is difficult to guess and using a AP that can suppress the SSID in Beacon Frames makes it that much more difficult for an un-authorized client to associate with your AP.
Oh, there'll be a check box alright, and it'll say "Enable User Monitoring" or something like that, but all unchecking it will really do is set a flag in the weekly upload to MS that says "User is paranoid and probably doing something illegal. Notify the BSA, the FBI and local law enforcement for additional monitoring."
What? You didn't think MS got out of it's trouble with the government over the "monopoly abuse" issue that easily, did you?
Obviously phones aren't going to be moved to wireless if your in a call center.
They could be. Spectralink in one of a few companies that sell 802.11 phones. Unlike 2.4Ghz cordless phones, these wouldn't interfere with your wireless network because they _use_ it. Look here: http://www.spectralink.com/products/netlink.html
My guess is about 50% increase. Sounds crappy, I know, but 802.11b has a bit of overhead. The beacons and all management packets are usually broadcast at 2Mbps, and the headers of all packets usually go out at 2Mbps as well -- so that slower 2Mbps-only radios realize a packet is being transmitted so collisions can be avoided. This allows for backward compatibility with the original 802.11. The faster the advertised rate (22Mbs vs 11Mbs) the more the actual throughput is affected by the collision avoidance overhead.
Ahh... good old ramen noodles. Sodium, noodles, and water in a bowl...
You can say goodbye to these schemes now, as they have no chance of suceeding.
You say that like its news to the record labels. Six months after debut, when the total subscriptions is barly pushing three digits, they'll shut the service down and say "See no one wants to pay for their music downloads. The only reason Napster and the like were popular is that they were free. Those evil, hacking, napster-loving, commerce-hating, artist-robbing, economy-destroying, pirates must be stopped" These horrible music subscription scemes were never intended to succeed, only to be a token foray into the world of music downloads. Listening to music on a computer is only about robbing people, or so we'll be told.
speaking of IDE and lies...
About two years ago my in-laws bought a Gateway PC. They loaded it up to the hilt, 933 Mhz PIII, 256MB RAM, 50GB HD, CD/DVD ROM, CD/RW, internal zip250, a half a dozen software bundles (seriously), etc.
It came with an external zip100 (paralell port) drive and no written explanation for the switch. When they called up to find out why, they were told there was no room for the drive in the case. When I found out I was pissed because I knew there was both physical room (it was a mid tower) and there were only three IDE devices. I told my in-laws this and they called back to insist there was room and to inquire why an external zip250 hadn't been shipped anyway. Tech support insisted that there wasn't room and that no one made external zip250 drives. Six months earlier I had held in my hands a USB zip250 drive that was purchased at a store. They called back again and this time let me speak to tech support. It turns out that the motherboard that had been sold with their system "didn't work well" with four IDE devices in use! They also agreed to ship out an external USB zip250 which were apparently in production now whereas two days ago they weren't.
As I've always said: "Standards are good; everyone should have one."
Think of the trolls!! How will those poor wretched creatures who value their self-worth on the number of first-posts achieved ever survive if they have to shell out money in order to even have a chance at a first-post?
Then again, that may not be a bad idea. Now that I think about it, I think that's a great idea, even for the people who don't subscribe. The first n posts would all come from people who care enough to subscribe and who probably don't want to waste ad-free page views on content-free posts. This would likely result in a higher signal-to-noise ratio in the first comments. Sometime that's all I get to read anyway, so 30-minute-delayed stories in exchange for better comments is a trade-off I'd be willing to make
Why would I need dozens of network drops in every room of my house?
...
;-)
The point is that with one AP in your house (two or more if you have a really big house or wish to hide them in obscure places) you can have dozens of clients accessing the network from every room in the house. You also don't need to unplug and plug-back-in when you move your laptop from one room to another. How close are your two houses? Do you have a cable strung between the two? Some vendors APs allow you to configure two as a wireless bridge, connecting two wired networks. Wouldn't that be kind of neat?
Most wireless services today target consumer applications - cellphones and PDAs. A wireless LAN is very useful
Wireless LANs are what all the articles linked to in the write-up talked about, at least as far as I can see. Lots of colleges and universites have wireless LANs. Think about what you did on the network when you were in college. Wouldn't it have been cool to do that from almost anywhere on campus? Companies are using wireless LANs too. Probably more than you realize.
If I were outside trying to enjoy a summer afternoon (which is pretty rare for me), I'd be reading a book.
touché
But, what if you had email to respond to or net research do, and it was a nice sunny summer afternoon. Wouldn't you rather do these things lounging in the grass under the warm summer sun than sitting in a cubicle?
No killer app?
Do you have dozens network drops in every room of your house or aparment? Does every conference room in your office building have a network connection for everyone in a max capacity environment? Have you ever surfed the web or checked your email while sitting on the front lawn, enjoying a summer afternoon? Wireless LANs themselves are the killer app.
I'm not sure what bandwidth you (or the article you linked to) are talking about, but I'm certain it is not the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band that 802.11b uses. If it was, no one would be able to use 2.4 GHz cordless phones or microwave ovens in the affected cities. Keep in mind "wireless network" != "802.11b"